Assembly Element (IntelliSense Code Snippets)

Article
07/11/2012

Specifies the name of the assembly referenced by the code snippet.

<Assembly>
    AssemblyName
</Assembly>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Reference	Contains information about assembly references required by the code snippet.

Text Value

A text value is required.

This text specifies the assembly that the code snippet references.

Remarks

The Assembly element is only supported by Visual Basic code snippets.

The text value of the Assembly element is either the friendly text name of the assembly, such as System.dll, or its strong name, such as System,Version=1.0.0.1,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=9b35aa323c18d4fb1.

Example

The following code snippet references the assembly System.Data.dll. When the code snippet is inserted, this reference will be added to the project.

<CodeSnippets xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
    <CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
        <Header>
            <Title>Create a data adapter</Title>
            <Description>Creates a SqlDataAdapter object.</Description>
            <Author>Microsoft Corporation</Author>
            <Shortcut>createadapter</Shortcut>
        </Header>
        <Snippet>
            <References>
                <Reference>
                    <Assembly>System.Data.dll</Assembly>
                    <Url>https://www.microsoft.com</Url>
                </Reference>
            </References>
            <Imports>
                <Import>
                    <Namespace>System.Data</Namespace>
                </Import>
            </Imports>
            <Declarations>
                <Literal>
                    <ID>SQL</ID>
                    <ToolTip>Replace with a SQL connection string.</ToolTip>
                    <Default>"SQL connection string"</Default>
                </Literal>
                <Object>
                    <ID>Connection</ID>
                    <Type>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection</Type>
                    <ToolTip>Replace with a connection object in your application.</ToolTip>
                    <Default>dcConnection</Default>
                </Object>
            </Declarations>
            <Code Language="VB">
                <![CDATA[
                    daCustomers = new SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter();
                    selectCommand = new SqlClient.SqlCommand($SQL$);
                    daCustomers.SelectCommand = selectCommand;
                    daCustomers.SelectCommand.Connection = $Connection$;
                ]]>
            </Code>
        </Snippet>
    </CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>